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by notthemessiah 7d ago
It was of course Palantir's Project Maven which lead us to drop a $2.5M missile on over 120 schoolchildren: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-iran-school-attack/
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by notthemessiah 7d ago
There's a big difference between "AI is creating misinformation and intelligence failures that could compound, especially given the fact that in a pre-AI world we came to the brink of nuclear warfare" vs the AI Doomerism of &
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by notthemessiah 7d ago
In other cases, use of Palantir's AI-powered Project Maven lead to us using our long range $2.5M Tomahawk missiles to blow up an Iranian school along with over 100 schoolchildren, and humans in the loop did nothing to stop the accumula
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by notthemessiah 7d ago
It's the same pattern we see in predictive policing where "AI" is being used to manufacture probable cause, but instead of just using it to harass minorities as cops do, the people doing the policing are people actively tryin
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by notthemessiah 11d ago
The only reason why Putin is there now is because we strongly backed Boris Yeltsin despite his unpopularity, we interfered with the 1996 election in order to prevent Communist Party challenger Gennady Zyuganov from winning re-election amids
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by notthemessiah 11d ago
Good: The Open Web Bad: Insta requiring login Facebook requiring login Xitter requiring login
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by notthemessiah 11d ago
Yes, you want a space only for those who think the same as Elon Musk, with his thumb being pressed down on the algorithm which you have no choice but to use. On Bluesky/ATProto, I am free to chose my own algorithm or my own client soft
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by notthemessiah 11d ago
Bluesky, like Mastodon, is built on an open network on open source code. Run your own data server and moderation services that cater to your needs. Many are already doing it: Northsky, Eurosky, Blacksky, etc. If you want to live in a safe s
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by notthemessiah 12d ago
Meta also including CSAM in their ads, computer generated in the US and real abuse materials in South Asia: https://www.wired.com/story/meta-failed-to-catch-hundreds-of...
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by notthemessiah 12d ago
I love Julia, but I feel two annoyances right now with the ecosystem. Interactive programming seems to be having a schism between Pluto, a reactive notebook like Observable, and Bonito, a more imperative notebook like Jupyter from the creat
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by notthemessiah 1mo ago
If he salutes like a Nazi, pushes antisemitism like a Nazi, and promotes Nazi policies, he's probably a Nazi (or at best, functionally indistinguishable). Plus, his parents had close ties to Nazis: https://www.democracynow.o
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by notthemessiah 1mo ago
Looks like data/account portability is in the works: https://swicg.github.io/activitypub-data-portability/lola But at ATProto/Bluesky, account portability was a consideration from the start.
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by notthemessiah 1mo ago
Bluesky Social is more useful for news. I can use custom clients such as https://sill.social/ which just aggregate the links and commentary from my feeds, and catch up on what news is important to the ppl I'm following
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by notthemessiah 1mo ago
English is still the lingua franca of Europe. I find that users in all parts of Asia still use Xitter heavily (though some artists in East and Southeast Asia fled when the Grok edit button was added), and only nazis and campist communists s
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by notthemessiah 2mo ago
You're right, but can we stick with Blue Ocean and Red Ocean as metaphors? 0 to 1 makes sense, but 1 to N loses it, and the whole framing reeks of pseudomathematics and math envy (which there is way too much of in the tech industry), w
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CEO reveals how he used AI 2 build 1 person company þats $1.3B in debt- Þe Onion [video](youtube.com)
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by notthemessiah 3mo ago
> Relays are quite expensive to run While relays are among the more intensive parts of AT Protocol infrastructure, their cost of operation is still something most people can afford: approximately $30/mo now. What is truly expensive
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by notthemessiah 5mo ago
> Talking to random people about anything, and talking to girls, and talking to girls romantically are all separate skills from talking to someone about an interest This is entirely contradicted by my experiences. Broad generalizations a
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by notthemessiah 5mo ago
So this never happened? https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/14/on-elons-whim-x-now-treats... The policy was enacted less than 2 years ago, which is why your previous tweets didn't get affected, and it seems n
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by notthemessiah 5mo ago
> platform for people who want to isolate from ideas and narratives they find uncomfortable Ahh, like how if you say the word "cis" on Twitter, you get banned because the idea that gender is not binary is an idea that the owner
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by notthemessiah 5mo ago
Your comment amounts to "so much for the tolerant left", and you seem to be projecting qualities of Twitter (under current management) onto Bluesky.
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by notthemessiah 5mo ago
the author wrote this in the Leaflet comments sections: """ through some upsetting turn of events, someone put this on hackernews and started a piranha feeding frenzy of speculation about what / who im referring to here.
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by notthemessiah 8mo ago
People in this thread are celebrating this, though it inevitably means ID-checking and mass surveillance. Australia's ban also exempted Roblox, a platform that exploits children and is a haven for child predators. Also, it's no co
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by notthemessiah 8mo ago
This compares it to Python and Rust implementations, I wonder how it compares to Julia's SatelliteToolbox.jl? Julia also compiles to LLVM and has macros for explicit SIMD. https://github.com/JuliaSpace/SatelliteToo
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by notthemessiah 8mo ago
At least when Google used the phrase, it had relatively few major controversies. Anthropic, by contrast, works with Palantir: https://www.axios.com/2024/11/08/anthropic-palantir-amazon-c...
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by notthemessiah 10mo ago
I'm guessing he means Rust voicing solidarity with Ukraine and sympathy with everyone affected by a conflict? It's hard to tell when people vaguepost. I guess wars of invasion/annexation are too controversial to oppose. &quot
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by notthemessiah 10mo ago
Agreed, the vagueposting is indication of ill-intent of the top-level comment. No hyperlinks or specifics, it might as well be a game of mad-libs where you insert your grievance here.
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by notthemessiah 11mo ago
The problem is that the AI companies are most interested in displacing the existing labor force more so than they are interested in developing new uses of AI in areas that humans are inherently bad at. They are more interested in replacing
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by notthemessiah 1y ago
> Like if I join some node then one day it's offline and all my data lost. I mean surely instances usually don't disappear without notice but it still a totally possible thing. This happened to me with julialang.social which ju
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by notthemessiah 1y ago
adding Threads's 400M users changes the ActivityPub fediverse centralized market share to 99.72%, beyond that of BlueSky's share of 99.55%.

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